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Gardening for Life By Wayne & Connie Burleson Ways to triple your food garden production Square Foot GardeningGO WILD! Ideas to Work Less and Grow More Long Box Gardens

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Why Grow Your Own Food? The E.A.R.T.H provides the answerE= To capture free sunlight ENERGYA= To help ALLEVIATE world hunger problems and help improve your family’s nutrition – save livesR= To make use of you own local RESOURCEST= To save TIME, money and less TRANSPORTATIONH= To grow your own HEALTH This method is based upon:Healthy soils produce - healthy plants - produce healthy people All done with very little money, & with work less to grow more

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WHY SMALL GARDENS WORK? … Planting seeds for those in need …• Small gardens are very easy to assemble and they draw crowds• Simple. Anyone can do it. Anywhere in the world• Requires very little water (safe to use waste water)• Gardens are constructed without money or commercial fertilizers• Very easy to take care of (less work, less weeds, less water, more food)• Highly productive from very small spaces• Can produce 45 kilos (100 pounds) of food from a 4’ X 4’ area• Each home can construct several of these handy small kitchen gardens• Literally help feed millions of people• Also an evangelistic outreach – presents an opportunity to share the good news• Empty stomachs have no ears These gardens are sustainable, lifetime, hand-up endeavors, not a hand-out

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70 Days The success has started as these boxes held together in several torrential rainfall events (like several inches of hard rain in a matter of minutes). The miracle happened, for soil amendment we ended up using several sacks of old chickenmanure mixed in with small wood chips that we added to each box. The native soilsare mostly hard clay, which is a poor growing environment. The wood chips becamea surface mulch and held the soil in place during the wind driven downpour. Strong mulching is a great aid for any gardening efforts in the tropics. We thank the Lord.

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The wood chip mulching protected the soil surface from rain drop impact This is especially on sloping on hillside gardens

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Success in Africa A Church Demonstration Garden Small Village in Rwanda, AfricaGrowth in 61 days

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How to Precisely Plant Your Seeds Take your time For 1 or 4 plants and plant each per square make a seed correctly small dish shaped for good success depression in the soil and place the seeds in the center. Water only where the seeds are located Mr Brite 16 Plants Mr Brite 30 Plants 9 Plants 4 Plants 1 Plant Per Per Per Per Per Square Square Square Square Square33 cm 33 cm Pea Lettuce These Tomato Radish Pepper Onion Seeds Beet Swiss chard Plants Carrot Broccoli Can also Cabbage Green Bean 1.5 cm deep Onion Sets Marigold Be started Onions 2 cm deep Spinach from Cucumber 1.5 cm deep Transplants Cantaloupe Small 2.5 cm deep 2.5 cm deep Carrots Potato 8 cm deep 1 to 2 cm deep

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Steps to make Crops in Small PlotsStep 1 Research which vegetables is there a demand for in your area and at what time of year Come up with a list of marketable vegetables that you could grow & sell.Step 2 Plan your harvest according to the market … hint: Have your crop ready before other people offer the same vegetables. Also think about adding value like cooking.Step 3 Construct several raised beds and/or garden boxes with in your water limitations. Fill each area with your best soils & compost to at least 12 to 24 inches (30cm to 60 cm)Step 4 Plant each raised bed with the correct plant spacing and timing for the marketStep 5 Harvest early when vegetable are young and prime. Hint: Share and/or trade for your other needs. A Garden Box First planting Second planting Third planting Seed different block areas within a raised bed at different times for multiple harvests.

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This lady in Shone, Ethiopia, Africa is a very good gardener as she knows how to place valuable water on each seed zone, which saves her much labor - hauling hard to acquire water for her garden. Re-cycled Water Ladies washing dishes and clothes in Malawi. Look where the water is going! Question:Could you dump this waste water safely on a small kitchen garden?

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A Life Giving StorySalmon River Pumpkin (A Winter Squash) From Seed to Seeds

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Seed saving techniques Beets Cucumber Biennial as it takes Let ripen past two year. Store roots Pumpkin edible stage and for several months, Cut ripe & mature Spinach turn yellow. Cut Pick out the strong replant to grow pumpkin open. lengthwise, scoop plants and let them bolt seeds, harvest seeds Remove seeds. seeds out seeds into a flower stalk and when dry. Wash with water. and dry go to seed. Pull the seed Place on screen or stalks out of the ground cloth to dry. and let dry. Thresh the seeds into a container. Pepper Let ripe to full Onion color, no sign ofLet a few plants disease.form round Remove seedflower clusters. off core andWhen dry, pick place on screenand thresh the or cloth to dry.seed out. Lettuce Allow plant to bolt, Tomato to form a seed stalk. Pick ripe Cover to protect tomatoes from from birds & rain. several plants. Harvest seeds for 2 Squeeze seed to 3 weeks. This will out, wash and require repeated spread on cloth harvesting. to dry. Certain plant varieties will cross-pollinate with other members of their same family. If you are raising your own pure seeds, only plant one variety within that family. Visit www.seedsavers.org for more information